Asiwaju Bola Tinubu: What Will Be Your Legacy?, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
If you choose to repudiate self and focus on building an enduring legacy, you are in a position to charge our trajectory, especially in the Southwest by working with your political Sir, in twenty years what will you be remembered for? What current of political philosophy or social advancement would…
The Rise and Fall of Boko Haram, By Femi Aribisala
The kidnapping of the Chibok girls was the biggest blunder of the Boko Haram, and it marked the beginning of the end of the group. How do you fight an enemy who is not an enemy but a fellow-citizen? How do you fight someone who is fighting you but you…
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2019 and Governance Compass For the Oil Sector, By Oke Epia
Notably, this particular dialogue is coming at an auspicious time when legislative reforms appear to have been stalled by the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to decline assent to the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) passed by the National Assembly earlier in the year. To say that politics and politicking…
Bindow’s Government As Our Mirror, By Babayola M. Toungo
...I am pained at what the party has become or what it has been reduced to, as a negation of our aspiration to build a virile and resilient political machinery that will be a complete departure from the practice that other political associations, most especially the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
Zamfara, Governor Yari , and the Futility of Anointing a Successor, By Ahmed A. Ahmed
The old African adage says: “If a man promises to give you a cloth, look at what he is wearing.” If Yari promises that his finance commissioner, who is party to the current rot in the state, will make the State better, just ask them both, what they did with…
The Loans Nigeria Does Not Intend To Repay, By ‘Tope Fasua
The truth is that we have a terrible record of loan repayment. With such embedded cultural profligacy, there is no way we will pay back our loans. If we incurred loans all through the 1970s, '80s and '90s and only managed to crawl out on hands and knees in 2006,…
That HSBC Report: Overlooking Progress and Its Inherent Contradictions, By Adeyemi Dipeolu
The first thing that strikes one after reading the report is that the writer downplays positive developments in the Nigerian economy. Every time that the data points to improvements in the Nigerian economy, the writer then immediately makes a negative assessment. I have hesitated to weigh in the media frenzy…
Politics and Today’s Meeting of the MPC, By Uddin Ifeanyi
It is difficult to see how the CBN’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) can continue to hold out against an interest rate hike. If not at this week’s meeting, then very soon, the CBN’s benchmark rate must go up, or (as its the CBN’s wont) find less than market-based ways to…
Shittu, Adeosun and the NYSC, By Festus Adedayo
My take is that Adeosun’s resignation is a great development for our The fact that Shittu’s claim is alien to the NYSC Act makes it necessary that he should also tow the path of honour of the Adeosun kind. Already, there is an underground crusade in Nigeria to do things…
Waiting For God (1), By Femi Aribisala
God is never in a hurry. His wristwatch reads differently from ours, therefore he often seems to forget what time it is. My grand-daughter, Tatianna, asks me a question repeatedly. She says: “Grandpa, how old are you?” When I tell her I am 25 years old, she insists it is…
